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I fairly enjoy it. I like how The Doctor lived to death instead of the big dramatic sacrafice of the 9th & 10th Doctors. The regenaration was really well done and Amy’s return was a pleasant surprise. 7.5/10

Time of the doctor was ok but the regenerating part spoiled I know each doctor should have their turn but matt smiths doctors ending was really sad whenever I even watch or think about it just makes me unhappy

I’ve been watching Doctor Who literally from day one, as a seven year old in 1963. In all that time, Matt Smith has been my favourite Doctor of all. I will miss him greatly, but I look forward to Where Peter Capaldi and Steven Moffat’s brilliant writing will take us.

Weeping Angels can regenerate, as seen in The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone.

wibaly-wobaly-timey-wimey

February 4th, 2014 - 3:39am

That is true to all of those

Ella Stevens

January 8th, 2014 - 7:32pm

Am I the only one who isn’t to keen on Clara? I love Jenna and I think she’s a great actrice,but I feel that her character at the start was really cocky unlike most of the other companions? I know we need change with the companions but being cocky isn’t great. I think that all the companions in past years have had a transformation from when they first started to when they have left, but with Clara she saved the day in only the second episode into series 7 which seems to me very un-realistic and rushed.I really hoped that they could make something more of her character and I really hope she has a good ending (guessing that she’ll be leaving in series 8 or 9).. Comment I’d like to get someone else’s opinion 🙂

I think that the BBC should hold open auditions for the next companion and give someone who is a massive fan to make their dreams come true.. how amazing would that be 🙂 Might started a partition or something aha 😛

Obsie

January 8th, 2014 - 10:01pm

Anyone who remembers the 80’s (like me and thousands of others) will know that way lies danger. One word, one single word will instil nightmares in us all!

Obsie

January 9th, 2014 - 1:35am

Clue: It begins with the letter A

BUY Me

January 9th, 2014 - 4:29pm

what is it

Obsie

January 9th, 2014 - 5:40pm

The last letter is: C

100000BC

January 9th, 2014 - 7:11pm

I see. Yes, well… I can see where you’re coming from.

Obsie

January 9th, 2014 - 10:28pm

I thought you might 100000BC. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde: It is the character that dare not speak it’s name.

Sandra

January 10th, 2014 - 11:50am

Oh, that’s just brutal!! 🙂

Obsie

January 10th, 2014 - 11:47pm

That wasn’t being brutal, it was being kind!

BUY Me

January 11th, 2014 - 4:28pm

adric was amazing HOW DARE YOU

100000BC

January 11th, 2014 - 7:05pm

I only said I could see where you were coming from, not that I agreed completely. He was good, but I’d rather not go down the “open auditions for big fans” route again, just in case…

Obsie

January 11th, 2014 - 7:31pm

My apologies to everyone it wasn’t my intent to offend anyone. I got a bit carried away at the thought of “open auditions” when mentioned. I just think it would be better if someone with a bit of acting experience would be a better way of doing it. My comment did come across as being harsh and I deserve being told off. I stand corrected!

Although 10 used 2 regenerations, the meta crisis doctor is not a incarnation…it was a freak accident. So although Capaldi is the 13th Incarnation, the 12th to call himself the Doctor, it is only his 13th body. It’s more accurate to say that 10 used 2 regenerations on the same body.

Anonymous

January 7th, 2014 - 9:28pm

12th dr in 14th body

wibaly-wobaly-timey-wimey

February 4th, 2014 - 3:45am

12in 14th body. That does not sound right but it is.

V-16

February 4th, 2014 - 6:02pm

But it does! 😉

Bring on Capaldi!!!

January 6th, 2014 - 9:31pm

I’ve been hearing rumours about the Master returning to the series but how will Moffat work around it? In The End of Time we last saw him blasting his powers at Rassilon and then he dissappered back into the last days of the time war. So how do you think he going to return?

Well if he does come back, how many would like to see him with his own TARDIS again?

Sebatron

January 7th, 2014 - 9:33am

I’d love to see him as an active villain and not have him “die” in his return story. Like he was in the Pertwee Era.

Anonymous

January 7th, 2014 - 3:52pm

So. If he was blasted back to Gallifrey in the time war and the doctor froze Gallifrey in a moment of time, he will find the Master, a Rassilon and the others when he finds Gallifrey.

Dalek the Supreme

January 16th, 2014 - 12:39am

I’d love to have Timothy Dalton back as Rassilon and John Simm back as the Master, but if they couldn’t get the actors to return, they could always have them post-regeneration as the main villains of Series 8.

wibaly-wobaly-timey-wimey

February 4th, 2014 - 3:47am

Jon Smith needs to be the master or it won’t be right.

Anonymous

February 4th, 2014 - 6:13pm

That is like saying matt smith needs to be the doctor or it won’t be right

I think we need a change

Bring on Capaldi!!!

February 4th, 2014 - 7:09pm

Benedict Cumberbatch would make a perfect Master just like he made the perfect Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness

I agree, I REALLY just want the BBC to sack him. aia know, I’m a monster. ;P

Sandra

January 10th, 2014 - 11:54am

That would be the best news ever!!!!

The Moffat Paradox

January 10th, 2014 - 2:50pm

Well. Hmmm.

I call myself the Moffat Paradox here because after no wrapping up of the plotlines in series 5 -7 until at last with “The Time Of The Doctor” I started to wonder if he either really knew or cared what he was doing.

He did. Even though his saying things would make more overall sense before the showing of “The Time Of The Doctor” was as far as I was concerned just codswallop. So no insult to logical thought has been committed in the end.

He has had good ideas like the Weeping Angels even if I have found his style of storytelling irksome at times and thought it suited more for his Sherlock than to Doctor Who.

If their already considering replacements for him then surely Mark Gattis if he isn’t too busy with acting in things like Sherlock as well as his writing for other things besides Doctor Who.

the astronaut of death

February 4th, 2014 - 7:33pm

I love mofatts writting

Manu

January 6th, 2014 - 12:59pm

Really those were very nice episodes .I really liked The Time Of The Doctor

I did enjoy watching Tom Baker in the 50th story .
As for answering the questions in the Time of the Doctor. Like how was it that landed in Amy’s garden ( Dakels, Autons, Cybermen, The Silence, Sontarans, Zygons??) who was it.
where did the other flight of stairs go ? on the outside of Amy’s house u can see that there was 2 floors a ground floor and a 1st floor and then the attic so where did the stairs goto on the 1st floor, this is just 2 of the unanswered questions i can think of at this moment I know there is more but i just can think of them at this moment.

Imma Timelord

January 7th, 2014 - 10:17am

ANOTHER unanswered question is:

WHO WAS THE EFFIN WOMAN IN THE SHOP WHO GAVE THE CLARA THE DOCTOR’S NUMBER!!!???

… we shall never know …

Anonymous

January 7th, 2014 - 5:28pm

mabey it is clara from the furure

Dalek the Supreme

January 16th, 2014 - 12:42am

Simon, it was the Autons. That’s how they replicated Rory and the Romans from her book. The fact that there are three floors on Amy’s house means nothing, it could be a flight of stairs leading to an attic, and doesn’t really matter anyway. The only thing that needs tied up is the “blonde woman in the shop”, unless I’ve missed anything.

The Doctor

January 25th, 2014 - 10:45am

I think the woman in the shop was river song

T4RD1S

December 2nd, 2014 - 10:16pm

we all know now, missy

Gman

January 5th, 2014 - 11:19pm

wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff question.
season 4 the doctor goes back to donnas wedding and gives her a present of a lottery ticket I assume it was a winning ticket.my understanding is that if the TARDIS lands in the past in the same time line it would be stuck in that time line. That’s why he cannot go back and
warn someone of on coming disasters etc.but if he landed to get the ticket then traveled to the wedding then how was he able to leave the wedding? Am I missing something?

BRILLIANT! I agree with all apart from the no story arcs there should be story arcs just not too long ones that take 3 series to solve

Anonymous

January 6th, 2014 - 7:22am

ok mabey not that one but less complicated ones mabey a one like the saxon period

just not the kind of one where you need to watch the whole series to get one episode

Dalek the Supreme

January 6th, 2014 - 1:08pm

I agree with most points, except for no story arcs, and maybe a new showrunner. Steven Moffat has made radical changes to Doctor Who since he took over, but I’ve enjoyed many of them, and especially enjoyed how the Series 5 finale had almost every episode of the season leading up to it, and many of the ideas in his run, like the Silence orginization and a previously unknown incarnation of the Doctor. I’ll admit the explanations for some arcs were rushed, but that was mainly because The Time of the Doctor was trying to squeeze what should have been a two-episode story into a one-episode time frame. As long as Steven Moffat continues to have interesting ideas like this, I wouldn’t mind seeing him stay in power, but after all he’s given us, I’m worried he may be running out of ideas. The fact that the stories of The Wedding of River Song and (to a lesser extent) The Name of the Doctor are copy-catted off of The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang are signs of this. However, if he was to leave, I wouldn’t mind seeing Mark Gatiss or Neil Gaiman taking over in his place.

100000BC

January 6th, 2014 - 3:57pm

I agree with all of those (Change “No More story arcs” to “Less story-arc-driven-stories”. It’s alright to have small things throughout the series to look out for which are referred to during the series finale, but I do feel sorry for the casual viewer who turns on the telly and doesn’t have a clue what the characters are on about. Sometimes Steven’s little mysteries get forgotten by him.), but I don’t mind Steven Moffat. I do think, however, that he should WRITE LESS STORIES HIMSELF. Steven is a brilliant writer with a very good imagination but he does wear it out to the point where we can get bored of his style.

The Gold Guardian

January 6th, 2014 - 8:09pm

I would agree with most of those, and in terms of story arks I think they should take a leaf out of Doctor Who Magazine’s book on how to work them ( I especially loved the build up to the 50th arc and The Child Of Time arc’s; and believe they are better then the impossible girl arc and the River Song arc respectively (the DWM story that was going at the same time as the T.V arc, if you get what I mean))
And as for a new showrunner; I think Moffat can do better (50th and Xmas, not to mention Sherlock) but most of Series 7 Part 2 was awful, so depending on Capaldi’s first series it’s make or break for Moffat for me

@BUY Me
I quite like the finale but they probably should’ve done that last year at some point
and made sure to differentiate it from The 5 Doctors!
If done right hat could’ve been great; maybe with the Guardians as the main villain (Black Guardian) and ally (White Guardian)
Or perhaps Omega or The Valeyard as the main villain instead?
Unsure about the Dlathereen or the return of the Ogri mind you…
But some great ideas!
😉 🙂 😛

Buy me

January 6th, 2014 - 9:49pm

Thanks

Random user

January 7th, 2014 - 9:35pm

good idea for finale. unfortunately Borusa, the trickster, and Rassilon are dead… you forgot the meddling monk and the rani and i dont know what purpose the adipose would serve (they’re just walking fat) and the marshmen are in another dimension (well, no.. gallifrey can be in the same dimension as them B) ) but anyway i love these ideas. although i think it should be longer… ah well they are great ideas and i hope the bbc uses at least one of your ideas. btw there are also rackateen. 😀

BUY Me

January 9th, 2014 - 4:30pm

borusa cant die

BUY Me

January 9th, 2014 - 4:31pm

🙂

The TARDIS

January 5th, 2014 - 4:18pm

I really think Matt Smith should have stuck around for one more series. Not because I like his Doctor (although I do), but because I think the storylines could have been tied up over a longer period of time and given his last story more room to breathe.

I think that The Time of the Doctor should have been a two-part story like The End of Time, with the first episode on Christmas and the second on New Years.

The Gold Guardian

January 6th, 2014 - 8:54pm

Maybe part 1 on Christmas eve part 2 on christmas Day
With Capaldi’s first story on New Year’s Day
(but the schedule would never allow it)
😀 🙁 😉

doctor3000

January 5th, 2014 - 4:01pm

here are some ideas for series 8:

1. the cyber invasion of earth ( the cybermen)
2. death in a paradise ( the sontarans)
3. sweet revenge ( the master)
4. dead or alive ( weeping angles))
5. the world of horror ( the daleks)
6. destiny of the doctor ( time lords )
7. destruction of the silurians ( silurians and sea devils)
8. the horror (spiders – planet of the spiders)

They explained why she wasn’t there. Her chapter broke away and went rogue.

RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND

January 5th, 2014 - 8:32pm

Oh, I must’ve missed that

Imma Timelord

January 7th, 2014 - 10:15am

NOOOOOOOO, she got electricuted right?? With her eyepatch for NOT forgetting the silence when they weren’t there?? right?? no???

100000BC

January 7th, 2014 - 5:23pm

No that was the Kovarian from the alternative 5:02pm universe. the real Madame K is still out there somewhere…

Random user

January 7th, 2014 - 9:36pm

silence probably killed off the real one as well……

RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND

January 25th, 2014 - 7:42pm

I would’ve liked her to be in it. She was coooool

Imma Timelord

January 4th, 2014 - 12:18pm

OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD!!! Why did Matt leave!!!??? Surely Doctor Who was better than the job he’s got hold of now!!! Well, he had to regenerate sometime. Guys, does it scare NO-ONE that he said a timelord can only regenerate a number of 12 or 13 times… I mean, I’m sure Moffat will think of something to carry it on. BUT WHAT IF HE DOESN’T!!What IF he wants to shut the show DOWN!! #hyperventilating

I mean – well you know – It is A BIT wierd..
PLEASE SOMEONE HELP OUT HERE!!

@ImmaTimelord
The Time Lords gave The Doctor more regenerations in this special in order for 11 to regenerate, so CALM DOWN!!
LOL
😉

Dalek the Supreme

January 4th, 2014 - 6:14pm

Matt Smith, despite being the Eleventh Doctor, is still the result of the twelfth regeneration. The twelve regenerations/thirteen lives rule has been established since the 70’s, Moffat just found a way around it. I doubt he’ll cancel the show considering he’s been a fan since the 60’s. As for why Matt Smith left, I don’t know. However, even though he was a great Doctor, the show has to move on, and Peter Capaldi is what it’s moving on to.

simon

January 4th, 2014 - 7:47pm

They gave him a new regeneration cycle so he still have 12 regens left

Adam Sumnall

January 4th, 2014 - 8:43pm

He has 11 cus he used one on Capaldi.
He got the new cycle and went young but he was still old and then her regenerated so its 11 left

Anonymous

January 4th, 2014 - 9:37pm

No he doesn’t have 11 he has 12 still it just that he rewinded his body back to his younger self when he regenerated at the tower

Anonymous

January 5th, 2014 - 12:16am

who cares if its 11 or 12 just be happy the show is still going on after 50 years other sci fi shows have finished after 7 years.

#savetheday

January 5th, 2014 - 1:34pm

Peter Capaldi is the 14th Doctor. The time lords used the crack in time to send through a new regeneration cycle.

#the lord of time

January 5th, 2014 - 2:44pm

Unofficaly he’s the 13th Doctor dont forget the John = 9 Christopher = 10th, David = 11/12th, Matt=13, Capaldi = 14th. But in the show Capaldi the 12th. I dont think they will be going around changing all the card games and part works magazines to change the Doctor’s numbers do you.

who rules

January 5th, 2014 - 3:15pm

new regeneration cycle is 12, he used one into capaldi so 11 left, a total of 25 doctors

Hmm yes. I think that most of this is right. So Tennant regenerated TWO times which makes Matt 12 autimatically, and then we meet John which makes him the 13th…And somehow he got a set of regenerations from the crack in the wall which were the timelords soooo, there SHOULD be a couple more Doctors after Capaldi… OKAY, WOOH!!!

Bring it on!!!!

Thank you everyone for your nice comments, the world is clear for me now from an 11 yr olds P.O.V. ha ha . thx

100000BC

January 7th, 2014 - 5:26pm

The new regeneration cycle is 13 lives (which means he can regenerate 12 more times), so there can be 26 Doctors including 10.2 and The War Doctor.

Jammy2305

January 11th, 2014 - 3:56pm

25 faces but 26 bodies – Technically only 24 Doctor’s mind you

cyberman2

January 12th, 2014 - 5:50pm

oh right i was thinking of journeys end when i said when he regenerated. he did regenerate in stolen earth

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